Salt and Pepper Mud Crab at Sydney Fish Market

My bounty at Sydney Fish Market–salt and pepper Australian Mud Crab. I originally picked a live green-lip abalone but it was DOA (dead on arrival), but you can’t go wrong with giant mud crab, deep-fried with salt and pepper batter.

If you like Chinese/Cantonese-style seafood, head over to Christie’s Seafoods. You can’t miss it as they are the first one to your left as soon as you enter the market; Christie’s Seafoods is also the busiest one with throngs of hungry tourists (mostly Chinese naturally) lining up for their fresh catch.

I shouldn’t have looked at this before dinner. Now those stupid little dumplings are gonna look pathetic!As an aside and a bit of shameless promotion, Canada does offer great seafood at very reasonable prices. Most Chinatown restaurants will have double lobster on the menu for C$30. A whole fresh dungeness(2-3lbs) is abt C$10-15. Just to give u an idea of what groceries cost, check out this websitehttp://www.tnt-supermarket.comTnT is a major asian grocery chain, I believe also related to Ranch 99(did I get the right #?) in the US. I’ve gotten a 8lb lobster there for C$8/lb. That was a happy day!

Anonymous – yes, seafood in the US are very cheap, especially in CA. Ranch 99 and other Asian stores sells Dungeness Crab for as low as $3.99/lb. Lobsters are $8.99/lb when on sale. Clams are $3.99/lb.